Lackawanna Terminal (Montclair, New Jersey)

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Montclair Railroad Station
File:Lackawanna Sta entry Montclair jeh.JPG
Lackawanna Terminal (Montclair, New Jersey) is located in Essex County, New Jersey
Lackawanna Terminal (Montclair, New Jersey)
Location Lackawanna Plaza, Montclair, New Jersey
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1913
Architect William Hull Botsford
Architectural style Grecian-Doric
NRHP Reference # 73001092[1]
NJRHP # 1155[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 8, 1973
Designated NJRHP August 7, 1972

Lackawanna Terminal is a small shopping mall in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, originally built as a railroad station in 1913 on the Montclair Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.[3] The station building was built of brick, and followed a Grecian-Doric style of architecture. The station had six tracks, and electric service began in 1930. It and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 1973.

The station closed in 1981, and was replaced by the Bay Street station two blocks to the east as the first stage of the building of the Montclair Connection, forming the modern Montclair-Boonton Line. The building was then converted into its current form. The adjacent Grove Street Bridge, a reinforced concrete overpass spanning the terminal tracks with enclosed stair connections to the platforms, was demolished and replaced with an at-grade street.[4] Until April 2015, the structure was occupied by a food supermarket and several fast food service establishments and several low-end clothing retailers, but in the wake of announced plans to alter the building's "character" by allowing the leases of current tenants to lapse without renewal and to seek out a different and more high-end quality of commercial tenant, the terminal now stands mostly vacant.

Gallery

  • Renovated exterior of terminal in 2008.

  • Lackawanna Sta inside Montclair jeh.JPG

    Shopping mall interior in 2010.

  • Lackawanna Terminal and Grove Street Bridge.jpg

    Abandoned platforms in 1983, with Grove Street Bridge in background.

See also

References

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  4. ↑ Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-52, "Grove Street Bridge"
Preceding station   Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad   Following station
Terminus Montclair Branch
toward Hoboken


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